( 144 1° cers, into thee who have a plenary and thofe who have a partiary power onely, in the Rule of the Church 5. No Church with a f ngle Officer over it, Comprehending in a Subjeecion unto its Jurifdidion, amultitude ofother Churches 3 No Invention , no Impofition of any Or- ders , Formes of 'Prayer or Ceremonies of Worthip not ofDivine Inftitution were once thought of and when any thing of that Nature was firft attempted, it caufèd great troublesamongft them. In a Word, the things on the acr:: ^ *r a Non-compliance wherewithal we are vehemently charged with Schi ne, were then neither laid nor hatch'd, neither thought of, nor in- vented. ToEreét new kinds of Churches, to introduce into them new Orders, new Rules, Rites and Ceremonies, to impofe their Obfervation on all Churches, and all Members of them, and to charge their diffent with the guilt ofSchifine, that Schifine which is prohibited and condemned in the Scripture, hath much of an affumed Authority and Severity in it. nothing of Countenance from the Scripture or Primitive;Antiquity. But after that Churches began to departfrom this ori- ginal conflitution by the wayes and means before declar- ed, every alteration produced a new fuppofition of Church Unity and peace, whereto every Church of a new Conftitution layed claim; New forts of Schfine were alto coyned and framed For there was a certain way found out and carried on in a `Wis`ery of Iniquity, whereby thofe Meek; Holy, Humble Churches or So- cieties ofChrifts Inttitution, who as filch, had nothingto do with the things of World, in Power, Authority, Dignity,
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